Quote Originally Posted by jbirdy
been through this one so many times that i cant really be arsed to get into it again. i'm solely posting this comment simply because after reading so many of you not giving hatton a prayer i'm gonna get in ricky's corner. a lot of you seem to think that hatton won't lay a glove on floyd or something. i think if hatton fights floyd and just goes for him similar to the red mist night that he dethroned tszyu that he will rough floyd up to much to allow him to use his bag of tricks. hatton would be all over floyd like a rash and smother his work. floyd has never been put under that presure and the closest it's been was against castillo in the first fight where many argue that the tactic beat floyd despite the decision. floyd has progressed as a fighter since then but the same logic still applies. judah took the fight to floyd for the first half of the fight and had good success with the tactic, however judah couldnt keep it up for 12 and alowed himself to get frustrated with floyd.
Floyd was under just as much pressure as Hatton could LEGALLY apply, when he fought Castillo.. JLC is a much more skilled pressure fighter than Hatton is, he has/had a better arsenal, better stamina, chin... And how in the hell can you imply that since Zab "took it to Floyd", and had success for 4 rounds, that Hatton could do the same and somehow win.. As if they fight anything alike.. Judah is way, way faster than Hatton, and he hits much harder at 147. Hatton can't fight anything like that, he isn't that quick, he isn't a counter puncher, he isn't a southpaw, he doesn't have much pop.. It's just not a reasonable comparison.. The only fair measuring stick that gives Hatton a chance is based on ONE fight five freaking years ago, when Floyd easily won an immediate rematch anyways.. He's a better fighter since then, just bullrushing him and applying constant pressure is going to be much much harder for a fighter to have success with then it was then. I really probably shouldn't have even responded because some of you from the UK will just always like to dream that Hatton could beat Mayweather. THe fight will never even happen, because even Hatton knows he can't...